Wolf Investments, Inc. v. Town of Brookfield

Memorandum Opinion

About nineteen months after the plaintiffs learned that the defendant town had voted at the 1983 annual town meeting to classify the road upon which their property abutted as a Class VI road subject to gates and bars, they filed suit for damages caused by the loss of town-maintained access to their property and, alternatively, for an order that the town maintain the road. The Superior Court (Wyman, J.) granted summary judgment for the defendant on the grounds that RSA 231:48 and 231:49 imposed a six-month statute of limitations on the plaintiffs’ suit and that the statutes…